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Objective_Kick2930 t1_ja2tl4k wrote

Reply to comment by ReplyFriendly8071 in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

Research into words never stops, whether ancient or brand new, so it's still a job people do have.

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user2542 t1_ja2xj60 wrote

Someone definitely got paid by the Oxford University Press to spend a few months researching the etymology of "fleek"

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VeGr-FXVG t1_ja3ixzy wrote

'Sebastian, why do you seem so morose?'

'Because of "Rizz", Jeffrey! From which vestibule of hades did this monstrosity materialise? Mother was right, I should've been a lapidiarist.'

'I thought you never took a shining took that?'

'Get out, Jeffrey'.

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